I am new to Puppy (and really excited about it); however, I have a problem. I have a USB flash drive, which I loaded up with the 3 files needed for Puppy (as per the updated installation instructions) plus the 'pupxusb' file. On booting my computer with the floppy, the USB drive is found and tiny.exe attempts to load the vmlinuz kernel, but hangs instead. I don't get any error messages or anything else like that. Any help on this would be appreciated.

That's right. You might be able to make a bootable 'rescue floppy' from XP, then delete from the floppy the files you don't want, keeping only the ones that you need. I'm not sure which ones to leave though.

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where * = grub's path to device
where ** = name of pupfile
where *** = size of pupfile in kilobytes
where **** = path to location of pupfile, probably the same location as *, but use the linux device syntax, e. g. hda7 as opposed to (hd0,6)

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PS EDIT

I hope you are familiar with how GRUB refers to devices.

Example:

fd0 = (fd0)
hda1 = (hd0,0)
hda5 = (hd0,4)

hdc3 = who knows? it depends on whether it is the second or third hd in the grub series

it could be:

(hd1,2)
(hd2,2)

whereas linux sees it as it is where it's located on the ide controller, grub doesn't see it the same.

Well, I downloaded the Live CD version of Puppy and it boots on my computer flawlessly. The USB drive is listed as "sda1" (that's how linux sees it). GRUB says that the USB drive is "hd1,4" (I think); I have one harddrive with 2 partions and that shows up as "hd0,0" and "hd0,1".
So far no luck in getting GRUB to find the files on the USB drive. Plus, the USB drive itself just went kaput (too many writes, I think), so I may not get back to you all for awhile.

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